Tesla's Germany factory is going to have a train service that will transport its workers for free, which cool, train good. But a number of the usual suspects (Teslarati and other Tesla/Elon loving media) are claiming that Tesla are launching the train as if it had built the train. In some cases adding its "mind-blowing" capacity (its the same as a regular train).

Here's the kicker: Tesla only slapped its name on a train built by Seimens, using batteries manufactured by Toshibadata-laughing

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    using batteries manufactured by Toshiba

    Batteries?? It's a train! We have ways to run electric trains. They're like everywhere else in Germany. Wtf

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I thought all rail in Germany was electric, but apparently the line that services this region and that this some is a part of runs on diesel trains. And as if right now their plan is to go with battery powered trains to transition away from diesel.

  • buh [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Surprised it’s not called TrainX or something like that

  • vegeta1 [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    On related note I was reading about electric trains and how are so few in America electric compared to many countries?

    • UlyssesT
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      17 days ago

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      • Skeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]
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        2 months ago

        Powerful car lobbies

        To add to this, the most successful locomotive lineups in American freight and passenger service (SD, GP, F) were manufactured by GM for the longest time before being handed off to another corporation. So naturally it was in their vested interest for trains to run on oil.

    • Skeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]
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      2 months ago

      Dieselbrains like to peddle the excuse that we couldn't run double stack freight on electric lines but the NEC seems to handle it well.

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      • vegeta1 [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Read the figure that 38% of rails worldwide are electrified or something. Surely some can double stack?